Wedding DJ at Berry Hall in Greensboro, NC

The Space

Berry Hall sits on the 37-acre campus of Canterbury School, a PreK through eighth grade independent Episcopal day school in Greensboro, and it serves the campus as both a reception hall and a rehearsal-dinner space. The hall is flanked on one side by a bluestone courtyard and on the other by a covered porch that looks out over manicured lawns, so the building has an outdoor extension on either end rather than facing a parking lot.

For ceremonies, couples can use Phillips Chapel, the campus’s gothic-style cathedral, which seats 450 people under stained glass windows and a custom-built organ, with Canterbury providing an organist for the service. Moving a wedding from the chapel to Berry Hall means moving from a formal, stone-and-glass ceremony space into a hall built for a working reception, with the school’s own architecture carrying through both stops.

Capacity & Layout

Berry Hall holds up to 300 guests, with a raised stage and a flexible layout that a couple can set for a seated dinner, a standing reception, or a mix of both. Because the chapel seats 450, a ceremony can run larger than the reception that follows it, or a couple can seat the same guest list in both spaces without recalculating capacity between the two events.

The bluestone courtyard and covered porch give a reception room to breathe beyond the raised stage and main floor, useful for a cocktail hour that needs to happen somewhere other than the hall itself while the room is turned over for dinner. The raised stage is a fixed architectural feature rather than a rented platform, so a band, a head table, or a DJ setup has a defined spot built into the room from the start.

Amenities

A catering kitchen is built into Berry Hall, which means food service does not depend on an outside kitchen tent or a long carry from a delivery vehicle. The raised stage doubles as a natural focal point for toasts or a first dance, positioned so the room’s sightlines already point toward it without additional staging.

Phillips Chapel’s custom-built organ and Canterbury’s own organist are available for the ceremony, an amenity most venues on a school campus would not have, since it comes from the chapel’s regular use for the school’s own religious services rather than being added for weddings. The stained glass and gothic stonework give ceremony photography a formal backdrop before the day moves to Berry Hall’s more casual reception setting.

Location & Getting There

The campus sits on 37 acres in Greensboro, giving Canterbury School room for both Phillips Chapel and Berry Hall along with the lawns and courtyard between them, so a wedding party moves across campus rather than between two unrelated addresses. The covered porch off Berry Hall keeps the manicured lawns in view through the reception, tying the newer hall back to the grounds around the older chapel.

Phillips Chapel is a stone cathedral with a high vaulted ceiling and hard surfaces, so a ceremony there rings and carries the way a church built for an organ and choir naturally does; Berry Hall, by contrast, is a flatter, flexible room built for a working reception, where a DJ’s setup faces a raised stage and an open floor rather than stone walls, giving the music a more contained, controllable sound for dinner and dancing.